The Epidemic Streets
Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856-1900
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 21 October 1993
- ISBN 9780198203773
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages338 pages
- Size 242x162x25 mm
- Weight 623 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This is the first full scholarly history of how Victorian society coped with infectious diseases. Whooping cough and measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tuberculosis ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.
Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city. The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century.
Long description:
The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century. Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city. Whooping cough and measles, scarlet fever and diptheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain a hundred years ago; today they have almost ceased to trouble the developed world. Dr Hardy explores thefactors which helped to reduce their fatality, focusing particularly on the role of preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances which affected the behaviour of the different diseases. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory ofmodern population growth, and it also extends our understanding of the ways in which Victorian society - both lay and medical - coped with the problems of endemic and epidemic infectious disease.
'The depth and range of Hardy's analysis mark this book as one of the most significant contributions to this ongoing debate.'
T.P. Gariepy, Choice, Jul/Aug '94
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Whooping Cough
Measles
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
Smallpox
Typhoid
Typhus
Tuberculosis
The Impact of Local Preventive Medicine
Appendix: Statistical Note
Bibliography
Index
